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Black, Dan A.; Skipper, Lars; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2023

Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training provided by firms. This chapter reviews, synthesizes, and augments the literature on the last of these, which has languished in recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm...

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The impact of continuous training on a firm's innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers' knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …

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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale Randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training: A theoretical model with evidence from Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2010

We study the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our theoretical model indicates that there are two contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of output that firms can reap by training their...

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Market failures and the under-provision of training

Brunello, Giorgio; de Paola, Maria - 2004

This paper reviews both the theoretical underpinnings and the empirical evidence in support of the under-provision of training. While there is little if any evidence in support of underprovision because of liquidity constraints to the demand side of the market, there is evidence that employers...

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Repeated selection with heterogenous individuals and relative age effects

Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheusser, Gerd - 2012

In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection policies in a model of endogenous skill formation where, apart...

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the United States, we find no strong or lasting effects on...

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Training and changes in job tasks

Tamm, Marcus - 2018

This study investigates the impact of non-formal training on job tasks of workers. The analysis is based on panel data from Germany covering detailed information on tasks performed at work at the level of individual workers. The results indicate that after training workers are more engaged in...

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Educational mismatch and mobility

Roller, Christiane; Rulff, Christian; Tamminga, Michael M. - 2019

With increasing educational attainment in Germany, the issue of inefficient human capital allocation gains importance. Especially overeducation seems to be a problem, since more and more highly educated individuals are required to take jobs that do not match their educational level, settling for...

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Technological change and returns to training

Klauser, Roman; Tamm, Marcus - 2023

Do returns to training differ if training is accompanied by technological innovations at the workplace? We analyze this potential heterogeneity of returns based on panel data from Germany that provide a unique measure for individuals’ adoption of new technology at the workplace. In the...

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